59th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The 59th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a Union Army regiment which was active from 18 September 1861 to 8 December 1865 during the American Civil War. It was organized at St. Louis, Missouri, and it fought in the West, starting with the 1862 Battle of Pea Ridge; it later fought in Kentucky and Tennessee, in the Atlanta Campaign, at the Battle of Franklin, and at the Battle of Nashville. It was mustered out in 1865.